While exploring MyBlogLog, I came across a cool site called Trendio. What does it do? This is how they explain it:

Trendio is the first current events stock exchange. It is a stock exchange where words from the news are the stocks. The value of the words is calculated according to their presence in the media. It makes it possible to visualize trends in the media and try to predict what will make the headlines tomorrow in a cool community-based game.

In essence, you 'buy' keywords betting (hoping?) they will be mentioned in the news in the future. The more mentioned they are, the more they will be worth. This is similar to the idea of predicting future keywords for financial SEO purposes, and I very much like that

So what's in my portfolio at the moment? The usual culprits: Yahoo and Google. Google is an obvious one (everyone wants to talk about Google), and Yahoo will be in the news more because they are launching their new PPC engine code-named Panama. Incidentally, Panama is also in my portfolio because I'm betting people like Time magazine and the Economist will be talking about that when Yahoo's quarterly results are announced. It's a medium term investment.

The last keyword in my portfolio is London. Firstly, we'll have SES London coming up this week, but I'm not sure how well Trendio keeps up with London news. Also, London is a good bet very long-term as the Olympics are coming here. In a few months' time, the 5-year countdown will start and people will talk about it.... a lot, I hope. Over the next few days, I'll be adding the names of popular current events news makers.

So what would you bet on?